2001 Archives - Rock and Roll Globe

Can We Be Mature: The Dismemberment Plan’s Change Turns 20

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2001, Change, Emergency & I, Rilo Kiley, The Dismemberment Plan, Travis Morrison, Travistan

Looking back on the time these DC indie heroes swapped sarcasm for sincerity

Alternative Rock Art Pop Dream Pop Electronic Experimental Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock

A Crushd Tin Box: Opening Up the Radiohead Time Capsule That Is Kid A Mnesia

December 1, 2021April 3, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2000, 2001, Amnesiac, Box Set, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Kid A, Kid A Mnesia, Phil Selway, Radiohead, The Beatles, Thom Yorke

How the new box set reveals new wrinkles in the Oxford band’s pair of post-millennium classics

Electronics

Melt Your Phace6: Aphex Twin’s Drukqs Turns 20

October 24, 2021April 3, 2022 Ted Miller 1 Comment 2001, 20th Anniversary, Aphex Twin, Blame Game, Chris Rock, Dillinger Escape Plan, Drukqs, Kanye West, Mike Patton, Warp Records

Looking back on the polarizing 2001 double opus of Richard D. James

Punk

The Argument for Fugazi’s Best Record

October 16, 2021April 3, 2022 Ryan Bray 0 Comments 2001, Brendan Canty, Dischord Records, Don Zientara, Fugazi, Guy Picciotto, Ian MacKaye, Joe Lally, Punk, September 11, The Argument, Washington D.C.

The D.C. band’s farewell wasn’t the ending anyone wanted, but it’s the best we could have ever hoped for

Alternative Rock Country and/or Western Electronic Indie Rock Rock

Playing Kiss Covers Beautiful and Stoned: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at 20

September 18, 2021April 3, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2001, Glenn Kotche, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy, Jim O'Rourke, John Stirratt, Nonesuch Records, Reprise Records, Stop Smiling, Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

I’ve got reservations about so many things, but not about my appreciation for Wilco’s complicated 2001 milestone

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Heavy Metal Progressive Rock

‘Disintegrating As It Goes, Testing Our Communication’: 20 Years Of TOOL’s ‘Lateralus’

June 7, 2021 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 2001, 20th Anniversary, AEnima, Lateralus, Maynard James Keenan, Schism, Tool

Was this the band’s last great album or the beginning of their slow slide into the mundane?

Alternative Rock New Wave Power Pop

Crab At The Booty: Weezer (Green Album) Turns 20

May 14, 2021May 14, 2021 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2001, 20th Anniversary, Brian Bell, Hash Pipe, Island In The Sun, Mikey Welsh, Pat Wilson, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer

The time has come for the band’s third LP to be deemed a masterpiece

Heavy Metal Southern Rock

The Beatles of Boogie Metal

March 14, 2021March 14, 2021 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 2001, 20th Anniversary, Elyse Steinman, Greg Strzempka, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Raging Slab, Rick Rubin, Tee Pee Records, The Dealer, ZZ Top

Raging Slab’s overlooked comeback album The Dealer At 20

Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo Hip Hop Rap

‘Enough To Hold You To The Brightest Of Lights’: Celebrating 20 Years Of Atmosphere’s ‘Lucy Ford’

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 2001, 20th Anniversary, Ant, Atmosphere, Husker Du, Lucy Ford, Minneapolis, Prince, Rhymesayers, Slug, The Replacements

Originally intended as a tour-only special release, its national distribution changed everything for the premier Minneapolis hip-hop crewalmost immediately